Kaikohe folk celebrate the rural life
Clean ride: Gillian Hayes clears a jump at the showgrounds.
Yee-ha!: Lana Menary, 5, gives the mechanical bull a go at the
Kaikohe A&P show on Saturday. Lana came up from Auckland for
the weekend to visit with her father's family.
Good boy: Ann Kenny leads her
41G2-year-old border collie cross
heading dog Cameron through
the dog agility course.
Shorn: Left: Neil Sidwell
finishes his last sheep at the
day's sheep shearing
competitions, the announcer
marvelled that his work was so
clean ''you could almost eat
your breakfast off it''.
Scaring the birds: This year's top scarecrow had a real artistic flair.
Old timey: Right: Trevor
Bedggood took kids on a tour of
the grounds on his 1900 Grout
replica, the gold coin donations
made by the kids went to
Kaikohe's Pioneer Village.
Star of the show: It was the animals as much as the people who were the stars of the show at the
50th Kaikohe A&P Show at the weekend.
The Kaikohe A&P Show had great
weather at the weekend, but smiles
outweighed the sunshine at the
classic Far North event.